blueberryfoxcake:

stokerbramwell:

general-homestuck-trash:

kanrose:

ok i know a lot of you are laughing about this in the tags and saying they deserved it because they’re furries, but what actually happened to cause this wasn’t funny at all

somebody deliberately poisoned the air on the 9th floor of the hotel with chlorine gas at about 12:40 in the morning. thousands of people were evacuated from the hotel (not all of them were there for FurFest) and nineteen people wound up in the hospital as a result of the poisoning (source)

basically this was an act of terrorism and it’s actually really fucking terrible. nobody deserves this

oh my god that’s terrible! who the hell would do something like that?

Also, frankly anybody laughing about it “because they’re furries” is a psychopath in my book anyway and can just fuck off.  People have a weird hobby that you don’t like, so they should die, haha, no, kindly fuck yourselves

Chlorine gas was used in WWI, and has the potential to kill. At MFF, it seems the criminal wanted to release these toxic vapours after his or her victims went to sleep. It wasn’t just furries who were harmed here, either… think about the hotel staff, and families, and children, who got poisoned. So no, this not fucking funny. This is not a joke. This was an immature, careless, and mean-spirited act of terrorism.

I would not say it was careless or immature. That makes the situation seem like merely a prank. This was straight up terrorism. People got hurt. People were hospitalized. People are in shock. People could have died. This is just as serious as, say, the boston bombing.